The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
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Kangaroo Island volunteers' 'mad dream' to rebuild 19th-century US sailing ship
The original INDEPENDENCE was built in only five months by the ship's carpenter and some of the crew of a larger boat, the Union. The Union's captain Isaac Pendleton had learned from French explorer Nicholas Baudin of the existence of a large island, south of the South Australian mainland, where seals and other wildlife were plentiful.